JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY / 2020-4 “JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY” Official Journal of the Serbian Society of Medical Biochemists EDITORIAL BOARD Volume: 39-4 OPINION PAPER Giuseppe Lippi, Fabian Sanchis-Gomar EXPLORING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN EXTRA-CARDIAC TROPONIN ELEVATIONS AND RISK OF FUTURE MORTALITY … 415 ORIGINAL PAPER Alenka Trampuš Bakija, Janez Jazbec, Barbara Faganel Kotnik PLATELET LUMIAGGREGATION TESTING: REFERENCE INTERVALS AND THE EFFECT OF ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID IN HEALTHY ADULTS … 422 İsmail Sarı, Hatice Ökten, Çağdaş Aktan, Esra Cihan ASSOCIATION OF THE SEH GENE PROMOTER POLYMORPHISMS AND HAPLOTYPES WITH PREECLAMPSIA … 428 Olgica Mihaljević, Snežana Živančević-Simonović, Aleksandra Lučić-Tomić, Irena Živković, Rajna Minić, Ljiljana Mijatović-Teodorović, Zorica Jovanović, Marija Andjelković, Marijana Stanojević-Pirković THE ASSOCIATION OF CIRCULATING SCLEROSTIN LEVEL WITH MARKERS OF BONE METABOLISM IN PATIENTS WITH THYROID DYSFUNCTION … 436 Shujun Liu, Yadi Zhu, Chenxi Zhang, Jiajia Liu, Hong Lv, Guojun Zhang, Xixiong Kang SOLUBLE PROGRAMMED DEATH-1 (SPD-1) AND PROGRAMMED DEATH LIGAND 1 (SPD-L1) AS POTENTIAL BIOMARKERS FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS OF GLIOMA PATIENTS … 444 Emre Avci, Alpaslan Karabulut, Gulcin Alp Avci, Burcu Baba, Cumhur Bilgi CRUCIAL MARKERS SHOWING THE RISK OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE IN OBESITY: ADMA AND NEOPTERIN … 452 Murugaiyan Vasanthi, Prashant Shankarrao Adole, Vinay Ramakrishna Pandit, Kolar Vishwanath Vinod ASSESSMENT OF SERUM TENASCIN-C AND GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR-15 AMONG TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS PATIENTS WITH AND WITHOUT ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME … 460 Jelena Vekic, Jasmina Ivanisevic, Aleksandra Zeljkovic, Vesna Spasojevic-Kalimanovska, Nataša Bogavac-Stanojević, Marija Mihajlović, Jelena Janac, Sanja Vujčić, Milica Miljković, Dejan Zujović, Jelena Kotur-Stevuljević EFFECT OF PROPOLIS AND N-ACETYLCYSTEINE SUPPLEMENTATION ON LIPOPROTEIN SUBCLASSES DISTRIBUTION AND PARAOXONASE 1 ACTIVITY IN SUBJECTS WITH ACUTE RESPIRATORY INFECTION … 467 Adolfo Romero, Juan Gómez-Salgado, Adolfo Romero-Arana, José Antonio Gómez-Fernández, Andrés Cobos, María Carmen Ramos, María Rosa Iglesias PREANALYTICAL ERRORS IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT SAMPLES: INVESTIGATING ERROR SOURCES … 474 Phebe Lotfy Abdel-Messeih, Manal Mohamed Alkady, Neveen Mostafa Nosseir, Mohamed Said Tawfik INFLAMMATORY MARKERS IN END-STAGE RENAL DISEASE PATIENTS ON HAEMODIALYSIS … 481 Biljana Stanković, Nikola Kotur, Vladimir Gašić, Kristel Klaassen, Bojan Ristivojevic, Maja Stojiljković, Sonja Pavlović, Branka Zukić PHARMACOGENOMICS LANDSCAPE OF COVID-19 THERAPY RESPONSE IN SERBIAN POPULATION AND COMPARISON WITH WORLDWIDE POPULATION … 488 Maryame Ahnach, Saad Zbiri, Sara Nejjari, Fadwa Ousti, Chafik Elkettani C-REACTIVE PROTEIN AS AN EARLY PREDICTOR OF COVID-19 SEVERITY … 500 TECHNICAL REPORTS PROGRAM NAUČNIH, STRUČNIH SKUPOVA I EDUKATIVNIH SEMINARA … 509 INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS … 513 Volume: 39 Belgrade, October – December 2020 Issue: 4 JMB 2020; 39 (4): 415 – 524 © 2020 by SMBS, Belgrade